Growing businesses need backend infrastructure that supports operations both today and as the organization evolves. SAP Business Suite enables this, packaging applications, services, and a core ERP solution for quick rollout today while laying the foundation for expansion in the future.
SAP Business Suite is a complete ERP solution for fast-growing smaller businesses, mid-sized companies, and larger enterprises. It brings full operational visibility, a unified backend system, deep artificial intelligence engagement, and a flexible backend system that can evolve and expand as market dynamics and technology change.
With the suite, forward-thinking businesses lay a digital foundation that helps support business growth instead of holding it back.
SAP Business Suite consists of five major components that work in concert to drive operations and ongoing business growth:
The foundation for the solution is the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, an SAP-hosted public cloud version of the company’s flagship ERP. S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is a slim, cloud-based ERP foundation upon which businesses hook in the specific applications and services needed for their workflows and line of business.
Instead of rolling all possible functionality into the ERP solution, creating feature bloat and requiring periodic upgrades, S/4HANA is a lightweight core that attaches to applications and services so a business can grow and evolve without the need for a complete system upgrade or software that breaks when the core is updated.
With SAP Business Suite, company data is centrally stored within SAP Business Data Cloud. A fully-managed SaaS solution that centralizes and governs all organizational data, SAP Business Data Cloud integrates with the core ERP and the applications and services that connect with it. This data integration includes third-party applications and services that are connected to the platform.
By centralizing all data in a single location, businesses eliminate silos and enable deeper levels of automation, visibility, and analysis. Data centralization also lays the foundation for trustworthy artificial intelligence that encompasses all available data and is accessible across the business.
Generative AI and artificial intelligence is accessible across the platform with the help of the SAP Joule Copilot. Joule is an AI assistant connected to a company’s business data and all applications within the system, enabling truly useful AI that leverages real-time business data and performs actions within the system when requested by a user. Sales staff can have Joule prepare sales quotes and map out calls for the day, warehouse managers can have it analyze stock levels and automatically place reorders, and IT can use Joule to set up integrations or add new users to the system.
Joule is an AI assistant platform, not a specific AI model. Businesses can use their AI model of choice, whether ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or other AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude. This AI-agnostic approach creates greater flexibility as AI technology evolves.
Cloud ERP applications bring the specific functionality a business needs. These applications can be functions common to all businesses, such as financial management, sales, and human resources, as well as industry-specific applications such as manufacturing and extended warehouse management. The SAP Business Suite includes a wide universe of possible applications depending on business needs and industry, and organizations can also easily hook in third-party applications and services.
The ability to turn on applications as needed and evolve the ERP solution over time helps right-size a company’s backend while simultaneously laying the foundation for future growth and evolution. By running on a single solution now and in the future, businesses avoid costly upgrade projects and technology limitations that can hold back growth.
Integrating online marketplaces and third-party applications, and cloud services with the rest of the system happens through the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). SAP BTP is an online marketplace for extending a company’s ERP solution through add-ons and turnkey integrations. The BTP also comes with a low-code development environment for creating custom integrations, system modifications, and bespoke applications that hook into the SAP Cloud ERP without requiring reengineering each time the core ERP is updated.
With SAP BTP, a business can integrate, extend, and customize its ERP backend easily without the usual headaches that come from integration layers and custom code.
SAP Business Suite is not your father’s ERP. It is a full-featured, modern cloud ERP solution that is built for today’s needs and tomorrow’s changing business landscape.
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